Google has announced plans to completely purge independent media outlets from their search engine just in time for Christmas.

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, announced that Google is now working aggressively on a new algorithm designed to “de-rank” websites that go against popular mainstream opinion.

He openly admits that the influential RT and Sputnik are first on their radar to be purged from the net, with other similar sites likely to follow suit.

Philippe Leruth, President of the International Federation of Journalists representing about 500,000 journalists from more than 100 countries, on Thursday compared stripping Russian RT broadcaster of US Congress accreditation to a manifestation of "insidious censorship."

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) — On Wednesday, the US Congressional Press Galleries took away credentials from the RT broadcaster after it registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act earlier in November.